Control SaveAs Dialog with AutoIt

Hello community,

a few times we discuss here the necessity to control Windows dialogs e.g. like SaveAs in the context of SAP GUI Scripting. For those dialogs offers SAP GUI Scripting no possibilities to control that. So it is necessary to control it by ourself by indirect means. Holger Köhn presented a VBA solution here. Here now an equivalent solution for AutoIt.

A few interesting findings:

• FindWindowEx works not in any case, it is possible to use EnumChildWindows function.
• The Save button from the SaveAs dialog delivers in the German version the text Open (Ö&ffnen) – weird.
• It seems that the dialogs are version and language dependent.
  

The code shows different access methods to find a handle of a control resp. window – FindWindow, FindWindowEx and EnumChildWindows – with AutoIt. I thinks this code is a good base to implement an individual solution for your use case.

;-Begin-----------------------------------------------------------------

  ;-Directives----------------------------------------------------------
    AutoItSetOption ("MustDeclareVars" , 1)

  ;-Includes------------------------------------------------------------
    #Include "C:\Language\AutoIt\Include\SendMessage.au3"
    #Include "C:\Language\AutoIt\Include\WinAPI.au3"
    #Include "C:\Language\AutoIt\Include\WinAPISys.au3"
    #Include "C:\Language\AutoIt\Include\WindowsConstants.au3"
    #Include "C:\Language\AutoIt\Include\MsgBoxConstants.au3"
    #Include "C:\Language\AutoIt\Include\GuiButton.au3"
    #Include "C:\Language\AutoIt\Include\Array.au3"
    #Include "C:\Language\AutoIt\Include\GuiEdit.au3"

  ;-Function _WinAPI_FindWindowEx---------------------------------------
    Func _WinAPI_FindWindowEx($hWndParent, $hWndChildAfter, _
      $sClassName, $sWindowName)
      Local $aResult = DllCall("user32.dll", "hwnd", "FindWindowExW", _
        "hWnd", $hWndParent, "hWnd", $hWndChildAfter, _
        "wstr", $sClassName, "wstr", $sWindowName)
      If @error Then Return SetError(@error, @extended, 0)
      Return $aResult[0]
    EndFunc

  ;-Sub Auto_SaveAs_SAP-------------------------------------------------
  ;
  ; Function checked with SAP 7.31 SP 4 and Dialog Box in SE80 to save
  ; source code as local file on a German version of Windows 7 with
  ; AutoIt 3.3.14.2
  ;
  ; Important hint: FindWindowEx works not in any case, so it is
  ;                 possible to use instead EnumChildWindows
  ;
  ;---------------------------------------------------------------------
    Func Auto_SaveAs_SAP($FileName)

      ;-Variables-------------------------------------------------------
        Local $i

      ;Get the handle of the Save As Dialog Box
      Local $hWin = _WinAPI_FindWindow ("#32770", "Speichern unter")
      If $hWin = 0 Then
        MsgBox($MB_OK, "", "Save As Window Not Found")
        Return
      EndIf

      ;Get the handle of ComboBoxEx32
      Local $hChildRet = _WinAPI_FindWindowEx($hWin, 0, "ComboBoxEx32", "")
      If $hChildRet = 0 Then
        MsgBox($MB_OK, "", "ComboBoxEx32 Not Found")
        Return
      EndIf

      ;Get the handle of the Main ComboBox
      $hChildRet = _WinAPI_FindWindowEx($hChildRet, 0, "ComboBox", "")
      If $hChildRet = 0 Then
        MsgBox($MB_OK, "", "ComboBox Window Not Found")
        Return
      EndIf

      ;Get the handle of the Edit
      Local $hChildArray = _WinAPI_EnumChildWindows($hChildRet)
      $hChildRet = $hChildArray[1][0]
      If $hChildRet = 0 Then
        MsgBox($MB_OK, "", "Edit Window Not Found")
        Return
      EndIf

      _WinAPI_SetForegroundWindow($hWin)
      _WinAPI_BringWindowToTop($hWin)

      ;fillin FileName in 'Save As' Edit
      _GUICtrlEdit_SetText($hChildRet, $FileName)

      ;Get the handle of the Save Button in the Save As Dialog Box
      $hChildArray = _WinAPI_EnumChildWindows($hWin)
      For $i = 0 To UBound($hChildArray, $UBOUND_ROWS) - 1
        If $hChildArray[$i][1] = "Button" Then
         ;The Save Button gets as Window Text Open - Crazy
          If _GUICtrlButton_GetText($hChildArray[$i][0]) = "Ö&ffnen" Then
            $hChildRet = $hChildArray[$i][0]
          EndIf
        EndIf
      Next

      ;Check if we found it or not
      If $hChildRet = 0 Then
        MsgBox($MB_OK, "", "Save Button in Save As Window Not Found")
        Return
      EndIf

      ;Press Save-button
      _SendMessage($hChildRet, $BM_CLICK, 0, 0)

    EndFunc

  ;-Sub Main------------------------------------------------------------
    Func Main()
      Auto_SaveAs_SAP("Test.txt")
    EndFunc

  ;-Main----------------------------------------------------------------
    Main()

;-End-------------------------------------------------------------------

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Enjoy it.

Cheers
Stefan